80's bands that are/were fantastic for their time:
Iron Maiden
Dio
Judas Priest
Metallica
Motley Crue
Van Halen
MSG
King Diamond
Krokus
Accept
Faith No More
Joe Satriani
Steve Vai
Ygnwie Malmsteen
Stevie Ray Vaughn and DT
Ozzy
Racer X
Eric Johnson
Jason Becker...
Plus, you had Mike Varney and Shrapnel Records churning out master guitarists like:
Vinnie Moore
Ritchie Kotzen
Joey Tafola
Tony McAlpine
David Chastain
Greg Howe
Marty Friedman
Michael Angelo Batio...
The 80's were pretty great, as were a lot of other decades, but it was during that time where I was immersed into the guitar scene. It was all wide open back then with the creation of the Rockman from Tom Schulz (Boston), and it was just touching on the PC/Tech generation with Casio and other synth technologies being used more and more in the industry (Devo, Art Of Noise, Tommita, etc.). You really needed to have talent to make it, as in say, Madonna. She could sing. Really sing. Today you have people like Iggy, who can rap, and maybe hold a note, but I haven't seen much in the way of any singing talent, which I am only using as an example to illustrate my point. Out of all the decades, I'll take 80's as being my favorite.
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